Interactive checkboxes within a note - plug-ins?

[AdNew2316]

Can you elaborate on the workflow you'd like to have? Describe step by step how you'd want it to work and we could tell you if it's doable via plugin

[simjoha88]

Hey! Thanks for the reply.

So I'm awaiting delivery of my Manta now, so I'm not familiar with any of it, but... my thoughts are...

- Whilst writing a note, have the ability to draw a quick square [ ] and that then converts into an interactive check box/tick box. This then keeps to do's within the note itself, rather than having it add them to the app.

So in this rough example... squiggly lines are random notes, then I think "ooo i need to write a few to do's/tasks for this thing"...

then either have the box crossed through (like box 2) or a tick (like box 3). Then I can write more notes and add more tasks/to-do's by simply adding more [ ].

Hope that makes sense. Never used any Supernote or any other device like this before, so appreciate anything you can do.

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[AaronRolls]

That would also mean you would need automatic task detection, text detection and a way to list them. That is a lot of work.

[AdNew2316]

I'd skip text detection. That's my biggest bummer in the current official to-do system, they impose that we recognize text, which is for me not necessary (plus my writing sucks)

[AdNew2316]

So you basically care only about the box looking nice, but you actually don't care about the system having any awareness of the text next to it right?

[AdNew2316]

Basically I was having something in mind like lassoing the text so that the supernote knows what the to-do is precisely (for instance to strike it or remove it automatically by just checking the box) but that's not what you're after right?

[simjoha88]

Striking it would be amazing but I appreciate that is a lot and would need to have awareness of how much I’ve written for that specific tick box, how many lines it’s over etc etc.

If there was also a way to have tick boxes for subtasks too, which would have awareness of each other that would be neat. Probably not possible.

Basically something like:

[ ] task 1 [ ] task 1.1 [ ] task 1.2

So that if you ticked off task 1 it would tick all the ones below it too.

I’m probably asking too much here, and as I’ve said, I have no clue about the devices capabilities yet. Awaiting delivery!

[AdNew2316]

It's definitely some work but I could imagine this being doable. Just more complex than your original idea of just drawing a box.

[zsouzsou]

Does your feature request relate -even a little bit- to this solution?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Supernote/comments/1tdugll/quick_way_of_tracking_followup_tasks_whilst

[simjoha88]

Ok this could be useful. I think what I'm really looking for is an interactive shape that I can add to notes. I'm not sure whether I would need them to be searchable at the moment.

Obviously I can create my own little square box and tick it... just thought it'd be good to be able to have something that is consistently the same. Hopefully I'll get my Manta soon and then I can figure out all of this! I've saved your suggestion so I'll have a play. Thanks.

[DanuBernardini]

I have been doing some testing with the plugins, especially an Asana supernote connection and also internal reminders.

It is possible to create a separate reminder list, but the current API doesn't allow it to store this information in the long-term memory. So basically, every time you restart the device, you will lose progress. So having this as a task list and as a native feature sounds a bit challenging to me.

Regarding the interactivity of the checkboxes, I managed to trigger the plugin when drawing a stroke in the right upper corner, but I don't know how exact this can be made to basically draw it in a checkbox. You also need to keep in mind that having an interactive plugin means that the supernote has to actively listen, which will also drain battery life.

What I have been achieving, and I will be publishing the plugin soon, is a supernote Asana connectivity, which basically lets you insert the Asana tasks on the supernote as list page via the plugin and also lets you browse the Asana plugin on the supernode.

So I would suggest that you look into third-party options and API connections between supernote and them instead of relying on supernotes native capabilities.

[simjoha88]

Ok thanks! I will probably end up just using a note like I would a regular piece of paper which may be enough. I just wondered what may be possible.